OthelloReview Sheet

Quotes: Who is the speaker of each quote AND who are they talking to?

  • “I know, Iago, thy honesty and love doth mince this matter, making it light to Cassio. Cassio, I love thee but never more be officer of mine.”
  • “Oh treason of the blood! Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters’ minds by what you see them act…”
  • “When devils will the blackest sins put on they do suggest at first with heavenly shows as I do now.”
  • “Let us be conjunctive in our revenge against him. If thou canst cuckhold him, thou dost thyself a pleasure, me a sport.”
  • “He takes her by the palm. Ay, well said, whisper! With as little as a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio.”
  • “Most fortunately. He hath achieved a maid that paragons description and wild fame, one that excels the quirks of blazoning pens, an in th’ essential vesture of creation does tire the ingener.”
  • “I do perceive here a divided duty…And so much as my mother showed to you, preferring you before her father, so much I challenge that I may profess due to the Moor my lord.”
  • “I’ll watch him tame and talk him out of patience. His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift, I’ll intermingle everything he does with Casio’s suit.”
  • “Men should be what they seem, or those that be not, would they seem none.”
  • “The Moor already changes with my poison. Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons which at first are scarce found to distaste, but with little act upon the blood burn like the mines of sulfur.”
  • “They are all but stomach and we all but food. To eat us hungrily, and when they are full, they belch us.”
  • “I will withdraw to furnish me with some swift means of death for the fair devil. Now are thou my lieutenant.”
  • “Some such squire he was that turned your wit the seamy side without and made you to suspect me with the Moor.”
  • “Tis he. Oh, brave Iago, honest and just, that hast such noble sense of thy friend’s wrong! Thou teachest me. Minion, you dear lies dead, and your unblest fate hies. Strumpet, I come. For, of my heart, those charms, thine eyes, are blotted. Thy bed, lust-stained, shall with lust’s blood be spotted.”
  • “Oh, are you come, Iago? You have done well, that men must lay their murders on your neck.”
  • “A guiltless death I die.”
  • “I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, killing myself, to die upon a kiss.”

Know the following:

  • Characteristics of each character, including what weakness they possess that Iago uses against them and/or how Iago manipulates them in the play:
  • Desdemona
  • Othello
  • Emilia
  • Roderigo
  • Brabantio
  • Cassio
  • Iago (obviously he does not use his own characteristics against himself)
  • Montano
  • Lodovico

Themes:

  • Revenge vs. Justice
  • Betrayal vs. Loyalty
  • Duty vs. Love

Frame story:

  • Outer story:
  • Inner story:
  • How outer story is a reflection of the inner story

There will be a speech from the play on the test as well as a speech you have never read before (from another Shakespearean Work…so be ready).

You will also have a choice for your constructed response.